The Maltese Relief Service will equip a shelter for IDPs in Sambir, Lviv region. We are talking about repairing a public building and turning it into a space for 130-150 internally displaced persons. The relevant memorandum of cooperation was signed today with the Lviv Regional Military Administration and Sambir City Council. The preliminary cost of investment is 15 million UAH. The reconstruction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2022.
“This building has not been used for many years. The building has three levels and an area of almost 800 square meters. Soon, dismantling works will begin there, followed by the repair of communications, replacement of engineering networks, replacement of windows with energy-saving ones, repair of the roof, and repair and arrangement of living rooms. Preliminary, we are talking about 15 million UAH of investments,” says Pavlo Titko, the head of the Maltese Relief Service.
The shelter will be designed to accommodate 130-150 internally displaced people. It will have fully equipped rooms (beds, mattresses, wardrobes, bedside tables, etc.), and each floor will have dining rooms, showers, and toilets.
“Everyday evacuation trains arrive in the Lviv region from different regions of Ukraine. The number of officially registered IDPs in the region is about 250 thousand people, 75 thousand of whom are children. We are trying to create comfortable living conditions for them. I am grateful to the Maltese Relief Service, which from the first days of the war has been helping IDPs both at the border and at railway stations and has been providing them with hot meals. The Maltese Relief Service helps not only in the West of Ukraine, but, for example, today they are repairing about 100 houses in the Kharkiv region as well. And the shelter in Sambir will be one of the largest projects, – said the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi, – Now we have 25 facilities under repair to create 3000 places for IDPs by the end of the year. One of these projects was fully undertaken by the Maltese Relief Service, and this is the repair of an inactive polyclinic and its adaptation for housing for internally displaced people.”
After the victory, this facility will remain in the ownership of the Sambir community. Now more than 3.5 thousand IDPs live in this community.